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THE WISDOM OF NORM CHOMSKY
Noam Chomsky Wisdom: How Much Time Is Left Until the End of Trump?
THE WISDOM OF NORM CHOMSKY
Noam Chomsky Wisdom: How Much Time Is Left Until the End of Trump?
Original article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS9MJNSlgww
- 00:00 – Intro
- 02:30 – The System Is the Problem, Not the Person
- 06:00 – How Truth Was Broken, and Why We Must Restore It
- 09:00 – The Myth of the Political Savior
- 12:30 – Collective Action Is the Antidote
- 15:00 – Defending Truth as a Sacred Responsibility
- 18:00 – The Path Forward: Reimagination and Responsibility
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Peter Burgess COMMENTARY
Noam Chomsky has been on my intellectual radar for a very long time ...
I have not been a great fan going back a long time, but I found this presentation much more in line with my own thinking that I expected it to be.
I am not sure that this is good news. This is perhaps the result of the horrible situation that America finds itself in at this point in history.
Peter Burgess
Transcript
- Intro
- 0:00
- the question posed 'How much time is
- left until the end of Trump,' contains
- within it both the desperate hope for
- resolution and the implicit illusion
- that the end of one figure will mark the
- end of a problem but to truly address
- this question we must look beyond the
- individual we must probe the roots we
- must examine what allowed this
- phenomenon not merely the person but the
- ideology the spectacle and the decay of
- institutions to take hold in the first
- place because if we don't we'll simply
- be waiting for the next iteration
- another name another brand another
- demagogue the end of a presidency does
- not equate to the end of a movement to
- treat a politician as a historical fluke
- or an anomaly is to betray a grave
- misunderstanding of our political
- culture the rise of authoritarian
- figures doesn't occur in a vacuum it
- emerges in a context social
- 1:02
- economic,formational
- it emerges in a culture so thoroughly
- enraptured by the immediate and the
- sensational that it cannot discern truth
- from illusion the spectacle becomes
- reality facts are reduced to narratives
- and narratives are sold by the highest
- bidder so the question isn't only how
- long until he's gone but also what are
- we doing while he's here and perhaps
- more importantly what will we do when
- he's gone when we ask how much time is
- left until the end we are often looking
- to a name a face a personality but the
- truth is deeper and more uncomfortable
- this moment is not about a single man it
- is about a system that made space for
- him to rise a stage was built long
- before he walked upon it and the lights
- were positioned the audience gathered
- the script written what we see now is
- the performance not the architecture
- beneath it and if we focus only on the
- 2:00
- actor we miss the quiet machinery
- backstage that keeps the illusion alive
- the true danger lies not in the loud
- voice of one person but in the silence
- of institutions that should speak the
- apathy of citizens who feel powerless
- and the manipulation of information that
- has turned confusion into strategy it is
- not only about what was said at a rally
- or written in a post it is about what we
- allowed to fester in our homes our
- The System Is the Problem, Not the Person
- 2:32
- newsrooms our classrooms for decades
- education was stripped of purpose
- journalism sold to the highest bidder
- and democracy reduced to entertainment
- when meaning disappears noise takes its
- place we must awaken to this not in
- despair but in clarity systems that
- reward spectacle over substance profit
- over people division over unity are not
- accidents they are designs and if we
- 3:01
- wish to change the future we cannot
- merely replace the actor we must
- redesign the stage that means
- questioning who funds our truths who
- benefits from our fear and who remains
- invisible while power changes hands it
- means understanding that injustice is
- not new it is simply now televised
- tweeted and normalized this is not a
- call to hatred or retribution it is a
- call to awareness to awaken spiritually
- means not only to seek peace but to seek
- truth and truth often lives in places
- we've been taught to avoid history books
- that challenge our comfort communities
- we've never entered questions we've
- never dared to ask the end we are hoping
- for the collapse of a harmful reign must
- be the beginning of a deeper cleansing
- one that begins within each of us
- we cannot fight lies with more lies or
- 4:02
- corruption with indifference we must
- meet deception with illumination let us
- then reflect not on how to remove a name
- from a headline but how to restore
- integrity to our shared life let us not
- chase the illusion of a single solution
- but build resilient communities that
- cannot be swayed by fear if we treat
- symptoms while ignoring the disease the
- sickness will return stronger smarter
- more seductive but if we tend to the
- roots nourish them with truth and
- courage then no face however loud
- however angry can dominate the garden we
- grow this is where the real path begins
- when we realize that the end of one
- chapter must be written by hands willing
- to hold pens not torches and as we move
- forward we must carry not just
- opposition in our hearts but vision for
- the next steps will demand not only
- 5:00
- resistance but reimagination compassion
- and the courage to build what was long
- neglected from here the work deepens
- real change does not arrive through
- spectacle or savior it does not descend
- like lightning from the sky nor rise
- effortlessly from the ballot box real
- change is built it is shaped by hands
- calloused with patience courage and
- faith it emerges from the hearts of
- people who refuse to surrender to
- despair who choose instead to believe
- that their voices matter even when
- drowned out by thunder and so we must
- stop waiting for a single moment to save
- us the clock does not rescue it reminds
- and what it reminds us now is this time
- will not bring justice unless we do the
- temptation is always to outsource
- responsibility to place it on leaders
- governments or election we are taught to
- 6:02
- How Truth Was Broken, and Why We Must Restore It
- wait to believe that the next vote the
- next debate the next policy will correct
- the course of a nation but such waiting
- is a form of spiritual sleep what is
- needed now is not passivity but
- awakening a spiritual awakening that
- calls us back to our roles not as
- spectators but as stewards of justice of
- truth of dignity democracy does not
- survive by itself it survives when
- people show up for each other even when
- the stage lights have dimmed and the
- world seems distracted collective action
- is not just protest in the streets
- though that is sacred it is also the
- quiet organizing in homes and churches
- the conversations at kitchen tables the
- care extended to neighbors the bridges
- built between strangers it is the
- decision to stay informed to teach
- others to interrupt lies with compassion
- 7:01
- and clarity it is to carry truth like a
- lantern through dark corridors knowing
- that someone behind you needs that light
- to find their way alone we flicker
- together we burn with purpose when we
- gather across differences across doubts
- we remind the world that love is still
- more powerful than fear and not the
- shallow love that whispers comfort
- without responsibility but the deep love
- that disrupts injustice that holds
- systems accountable that says enough not
- with hatred but with holiness such
- solidarity is not built overnight it is
- built day by day failure by failure
- forgiveness by forgiveness it is built
- when we look at one another and say 'I
- see your struggle and I will not turn
- away.' The end we seek of deceit of
- division of destructive rule will only
- come when we the people realize that we
- 8:03
- are not powerless the greatest lie ever
- told was that our efforts are too small
- but history is a river made from small
- drops letters written meetings held
- meals shared hands lifted in protest and
- in prayer each act of truth each moment
- of courage bends that river just a
- little more toward justice if we believe
- that our labor is in vain then the
- loudest voices win but if we persist not
- just in resistance but in rebuilding we
- become the tide that no one can stop and
- so as we continue to ask how much time
- is left let us remember that the answer
- depends on how we move together not just
- in anger but in unity not only to tear
- down what is broken but to raise up what
- is beautiful the clock does not
- countdown toward a miracle it counts
- The Myth of the Political Savior
- 9:00
- forward into the space we create with
- our actions what we do now how we stand
- how we serve how we speak determines the
- future we inherit and this too leads us
- onward truth in times like these is not
- merely under attack it is being
- auctioned it is bent and sold reshaped
- to fit desires discarded when
- inconvenient when the airwaves grow
- louder than our inner conscience and
- when emotion replaces evidence the soul
- of a people begins to drift yet we must
- remember truth is not noise it is
- stillness it is clarity that does not
- shout but stands firm and in an age of
- deliberate confusion to speak truth to
- live truth to defend truth is not only
- political it is sacred what we are
- witnessing is not just political
- dysfunction it is the collapse of shared
- meaning words have been weaponized facts
- are treated as opinions lies are
- repeated until they become cultural
- furniture barely noticed this is not an
- 10:02
- accident it is strategy because when
- people lose their grip on what is real
- they can be led anywhere they no longer
- resist they react and so the task before
- us is not just to oppose untruth but to
- rebuild the very ground where truth can
- take root again to reclaim truth is to
- reclaim the human spirit it means
- rejecting the easy comfort of echo
- chambers and engaging the hard work of
- discernment it means admitting when we
- are wrong listening when it is difficult
- and seeking understanding not to win
- arguments but to heal what's broken
- truth cannot live in arrogance or pride
- it lives in humility and perseverance
- and this spiritual discipline of
- choosing truth over convenience is how
- we grow into people who can carry
- freedom with integrity truth also
- demands protection not from force alone
- but from forgetfulness because history
- 11:00
- warns us when truth is not defended it
- is replaced first by doubt then by
- distraction then by domination we cannot
- afford to be passive observers in this
- struggle each lie unchallenged makes
- space for more each silence creates a
- vacuum where distortion breeds
- protecting truth is not merely a task
- for journalists or scholars it is a
- daily devotion for anyone who believes
- in dignity in justice in peace let us
- not become cynical for cynicism is the
- slow death of moral responsibility
- when we say nothing is true we are not
- being wise we are surrendering but when
- we say truth still matters we begin to
- rise again we begin to live as if the
- future depends on us because it does it
- depends on whether we will tell the
- truth to our children to our neighbors
- to ourselves it depends on whether we
- 12:02
- will uphold it in systems that seek to
- erase it so as we ask how much time
- remains let us understand that time will
- only move us toward freedom if it moves
- us toward truth every lie that is
- uprooted clears space for what is honest
- and whole every truth spoken with love
- becomes a seed for something lasting and
- it is here in the defense and renewal of
- Collective Action Is the Antidote
- 12:31
- truth that our journey must continue
- step by step voice by voice light by
- light the roots of demagoguery are found
- in despair economic despair moral
- despair informationational despair when
- people are stripped of their agency when
- systems are designed not for
- participation but for compliance when
- voices are drowned out by money and
- truth is trampled by entertainment what
- emerges is not just apathy but
- 13:01
- resentment and in that resentment space
- is created for the strongman for the one
- who promises order amidst chaos for the
- one who says 'I alone can fix it.' It is
- not difficult to recognize the
- characteristics contempt for truth
- scapegoating of the vulnerable disdain
- for democratic norms celebration of
- ignorance masquerading as authenticity
- these are not new history provides ample
- warnings but what must concern us now is
- not just the man at the center of the
- spectacle but the soil that nourishes
- him that soil has been carefully
- prepared for decades public institutions
- have been eroded the media once tasked
- with challenging power has largely
- become an extension of it consolidated
- corporatized and incentivized to pursue
- ratings rather than truth education
- instead of cultivating critical thought
- 14:01
- has increasingly become a tool of
- obedience teaching students to memorize
- not to question democracy has become
- theater with citizens reduced to
- consumers of ideology rather than
- participants in collective governance in
- such a climate it is no wonder that
- authoritarianism finds a foothold it
- doesn't need to seize power overnight it
- creeps in slowly steadily under the
- cover of slogans and tweets of chaos and
- fatigue it exploits divisions that have
- long existed racial economic ideological
- and amplifies them until solidarity
- becomes nearly impossible divide and
- conquer has always been the strategy of
- those in power now with algorithms that
- fragment our information landscape and
- reinforce our biases that strategy has
- reached new heights of efficiency so
- again how long until the end if you mean
- Defending Truth as a Sacred Responsibility
- 15:01
- the man perhaps not long his reign may
- end at the ballot box through legal
- judgment or by the tide of history but
- the system that allowed him to rise that
- will remain unless we act this is where
- the motivational part must begin though
- it cannot be rooted in false hope it
- must be rooted in responsibility the
- responsibility of those who can see to
- help others see the responsibility of
- those who can speak to speak the truth
- even when it's unpopular especially when
- it's unpopular we must resist the
- temptation to treat politics as
- spectacle we must reject the pacivity
- that says it's out of our hands it is in
- our hands always has been that's the
- terrifying truth and the liberating one
- there is no savior coming to rescue us
- there is no candidate no party no
- billionaire benefactor who will restore
- dignity to the democratic process that
- 16:00
- will come only when we demand it when we
- organize when we build alternatives when
- we stop hoping for heroes and start
- becoming one another's allies we must
- rebuild from the ground up that means
- reclaiming education not just in the
- classroom but in everyday life teaching
- one another sharing knowledge building
- media that informs rather than inflames
- supporting institutions that foster
- solidarity rather than exploitation it
- also means facing hard truths including
- the truth that many who support
- authoritarian figures do so not out of
- malice but out of desperation
- out of a belief often justified that the
- system has failed them if we write them
- off as merely stupid or evil we ensure
- the cycle continues we must listen not
- to validate hatred but to understand the
- 17:00
- conditions in which it thrives and to
- dismantle those conditions it is not
- enough to defeat a figure we must defeat
- the ideology and to do that we must
- understand it we must understand why
- millions found solace in falsehood why
- they preferred the comfort of lies to
- the burden of truth and we must create
- something better not just rhetorically
- but materially that means jobs health
- care housing dignity not as charity but
- as justice authoritarianism is
- attractive in a system where dignity is
- scarce the promise of restoration of a
- mythical past where things were great is
- appealing when the present is unbearable
- so we must make the present bearable we
- must make the future believable not with
- empty slogans but with real action so
- how much time is left as much as we
- allow we can choose resignation cynicism
- The Path Forward: Reimagination and Responsibility
- 18:00
- and inaction in which case he may leave
- but his shadow will remain or we can
- choose to see clearly to act decisively
- to organize strategically in which case
- his reign his true reign not just the
- man but what he represents can end
- sooner than anyone expects the future is
- not written it is not determined by
- polls pundits or powerful men it is
- determined by what ordinary people are
- willing to do when they realize their
- power when they refuse to be spectators
- in their own democracy when they insist
- that truth matters that justice matters
- that human life matters more than profit
- more than ideology more than power do
- not wait for permission to act do not
- wait for the next election cycle the
- next media scandal the next catastrophe
- begin now in your community in your
- workplace in your conversations speak
- 19:00
- truth where lies are dominant practice
- solidarity where division is assumed
- show that another world is not only
- possible but necessary history is not
- the story of great men it is the story
- of movements of resistance of people who
- refuse to accept that the way things are
- is the way they must always be that
- power must forever be concentrated that
- cruelty is inevitable that justice is
- naive if we believe in nothing else
- believe in the power of people to
- surprise to resist to build a new the
- forces of destruction are powerful but
- they are not omnipotent they depend on
- our silence on our despair on our belief
- that nothing can change so how much time
- is left that depends on us on whether we
- allow him to define our error or whether
- we define it ourselves let us be clear
- this is not just a political struggle it
- 20:00
- is a moral one an existential one and
- yes it is exhausting but despair is a
- luxury we cannot afford not when
- children are in cages not when the
- planet burns not when truth is mocked
- and cruelty is celebrated this moment
- will be remembered not for what he did
- but for what we did did we speak did we
- act did we resist did we build the clock
- is ticking not on one man's term in
- office but on the democratic experiment
- itself it will survive not through hope
- alone but through courage through
- collective action through the refusal to
- surrender to cynicism do not wait for
- the end be the